There’s a perception, and I’ll leave it to the reader to say whether it’s valid, that Apple may have underwhelmed customers for 2016. So let’s look at what happened and see what might have been. Throughout 2016, at least so far, Apple has been attacked for conveying the impression that they were more or less giving […]

As I write this article, Apple stock price has dropped over two percent. This comes in the wake of Tuesday’s announcement that sales were down again, as expected, in the September quarter. Now you expect Wall Street to treat such news negatively. Companies are supposed to grow sales, but one would think the falling sales […]

At a time where anything less than dreadful from Apple might have seemed a huge positive, Apple released its financials for its fourth fiscal quarter. So revenues came in at $46.9 billion, which was down from $51.5 billion in the year-ago quarter. Earnings per share were reported as $1.67. Both numbers were a tad ahead […]

It’s clear that Samsung’s executives are having a bad time these days. First, they released the Galaxy Note 7 phablet only to receive reports of dozens of incidents of batteries overheating and sometimes bursting into flame. That’s bad enough, and, to its credit, Samsung quickly recalled the product and presumably worked on a fixed version. […]